legacy

My office has been helping a retired librarian researching/preparing his and his wife's family's personal history for publishing. He's legit. He's collected thousands of footnotes. It's been years, it's been fascinating, and it finally came home from the bindery, a big, heavy, serious book, and the other day he brought it in to show us. It's 600 pages and full of photos I scanned for him and research my coworker helped him find and he misspelled her name when when he thanked us in the acknowledgements but we didn't tell him. He kept telling us he thought he'd die before he saw it. I had just put lotion on my hands and left a handprint on the brand new binding. I'll see it on our shelves.